Vincent Edward Collom, Edna Bonacich
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE ,
2002
This project is an analysis of Americans' attitudes toward three forms of workplace
democracy. National survey data from 1991 are employed to investigate the relationship
between the bases of social inequality under contemporary capitalism and this alternative
which potentially ameliorates workplace inequality. Race, class, and gender are hypothesized
to be major determinants of attitudes toward workplace democracy. Numerous indicators
of class position are examined and the class criteria which tap into production relations
are most salient. A more holistic class location analysis demons

John J. CondonНаучный руководитель:Lindsey ChurchillОрганизация:
City University of New York
2001
Medicine is and has been a highly prestigious profession. It both produces and reproduces
members of the upper class. Its high status has long been accepted as legitimate
by society due to the tremendous sacrifices its members make both in the length and
difficulty of their training and the content of their work. However, medicine is
currently facing problems. It is under siege by managed care organizations and the
federal government, which not only want to regulate fees that physicians receive
but to intervene in their professional decision making. One of the initiatives currently
unde

Susan Alexandra DumaisНаучный руководитель:Stanley LiebersonОрганизация:
Harvard University
2002
In this dissertation I examine the educational trajectories of a group that has been
neglected in recent educational research: white working-class students. Rather than
comparing these students to middle-class students, as has been done in past research,
I compare the students by their outcomes, examining the differences between those
working-class students who attain high school diplomas only, those who pursue associate's
degrees, and those who pursue bachelor's degrees. Using data from the National Education
Longitudinal Study, I examine overall differences between the outcome groups w

Yuval ElmelechНаучный руководитель:Seymour Spilerman
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ,
2001
This dissertation explores the determinants and socioeconomic consequences of inequality
in material assets among middle-aged American households. Using survey data from
the Health and Retirement study (HRS), and utilizing suitable quantitative techniques,
this study establishes a conceptual ground which brings back the critical role private
property and kinship relations play in contemporary stratification processes. This
study shows that in the contemporary post-transitional, multi-asset society, two
social mechanisms of closure and exclusion, marriage and inheritance ;intervene in
th

Dita Andersson EverettНаучный руководитель:Mary WalshОрганизация:
Department of Economics
2002
This study sought to determine whether social class contributed to differences in
moral justifications and moral decision-making. The study also sought to determine
whether particular situational variables, namely the nature of the relationship between
individuals depicted in a moral dilemma and the severity of the grievance depicted
in a moral dilemma, had an influence upon moral decision-making and moral justifications.
Results found significant differences between the lower-income and middle-upper income
participants in both their moral decisions and in their moral justifications. Mor

Billy Wayne Godair, Berhanu Mengistu
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY ,
2001
This study examined Wilson's hypothesis that economic restructuring accompanied by
spatial redistribution of employment opportunities coupled with rising skills requirements
for employment provide an explanation for the increasing concentration of metropolitan
area poverty in its central city. This study also assesses the influence that racism,
represented by racial residential segregation (Index of Dissimilarity), may have
on the distribution of metropolitan poverty.

Monica Elizabeth GutierrezНаучный руководитель:Walter F. StenningОрганизация:
Texas A&M University
2002
The purpose of this study was to determine social class positions as derived from
career and educational aspirations and expectations and to identify barriers affecting
career and educational achievement. The research study was focused on students from
a small geographically isolated community. These students were bused 20 miles to
a high school outside their county and have historically had a high dropout rate.
Individual interviews were conducted with 32 students and former students and their
parents, as well as eight teachers from the high school. The student pool was evenly
divided

Craig David Peterson HelmstetterНаучный руководитель:Patricia A. GwartneyОрганизация:
University of Oregon
2001
This dissertation addresses the question: What are the determinants of (and impediments
to) the development of ideological sophistication? Using National Election Studies
data, I develop two individual-level measures of ideological sophistication, emphasizing
ideological consistency and stability. Bivariate tests demonstrate support for several
hypotheses concerning the stratification of ideological sophistication according
to various demographic, social-structural, and psychological and behavioral traits.
Multiple regression analyses emphasize the relative importance of the psychologica

Ndueso Akpan InyangНаучный руководитель:P. Yang
TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY ,
2001
A holistic and comprehensive theory is developed in the study which attributes societal
stratification to endogenous and exogenous factors as well as the interactions between
the two sets of factors. Empirical analyses based on bivariate and multiple regression
modelings confirm key theoretical assumptions which attribute societal stratification
to a state's internal dynamics of development as well as status in the world systems.
Interaction of development status and world systems position produce different stratification
effects in different clusters of countries. These findings of the

David Kenneth Jesuit, Vincent MahlerОрганизация:
Loyola University of Chicago
2001
The research explores the political sources of income
inequality by examining the relationship between electoral turnout, income inequality
and government tax and social transfer policies for the industrial democracies of
Western Europe, North America and Oceania between 1960 and 1995.

Heather Beth Johnson, Thomas M. ShapiroОрганизация:
Northeastern University
2001
This dissertation examines the interconnections between race, wealth inequality,
and ideology in the decision making-processes of how black and white parents choose
elementary and secondary schools for their children in the United States.

Nancy Lane LathamНаучный руководитель:Neil FligsteinОрганизация:
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
2001
What factors are behind a couple's redistribution of labor hours after they become
parents? I come at this issue from two directions, considering first the rise in
the proportion of housework hours women do, and then the drop on their proportion
of employment hours. First, why don't women resist a division of housework in which
they do twice what their husbands do? And second, why do women choose to decrease
their employment hours so dramatically while men's hours register virtually no change?
In chapter 2, I ask whether women employ a particular equity principle in judging
whether the

Melissa LevittНаучный руководитель:John Hull MollenkopfОрганизация:
City University of New York
2001
The 1989 and 1993 New York City mayoral elections were decided by only 97,000 votes
an extremely small margin. Both elections pitted David Dinkins and Rudolph Giuliani
against each other; approximately the same proportion of New Yorkers came to the
polls. This dissertation attempts to show that pessimistic outlook of middle class
white New Yorkers swung the election toward Giuliani. He was able to tap into the
pessimism of this key group, motivating them to come to the polls and vote for change.
This dissertation will analyze Census data, cross-sectional survey data and election
distric

Feijun LuoНаучный руководитель:John P. FormbyОрганизация:
University of Alabama
2001
This dissertation evaluates consumption-based poverty and inequality in the United
States using Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) data for the period 1984-1998. Slesnicks's
poverty and inequality analysis (1993, 1994) is replicated, amplified and extended
into the late 1990s. The poverty and inequality measures rest upon micro-theoretic
foundations of utility maximizing behavior and demand. Two parallel theoretical and
empirical frameworks are used. The Translog model (Christensen, Jorgenson, and Lau,
1975) with expenditure-independent equivalence scales is used to replicate and extend

Adolfo Martinez ValleНаучный руководитель:Vicente NavarroОрганизация:
The Johns Hopkins University
2002
To study how social inequality has influenced the health status of the Mexican population
at the individual and the state level between 1990 and 1996. Explore the pathways
through which social inequality affect health. Identify policy options to address
social inequality in Mexico. Theoretical framework. Social inequality is understood
here as a structural feature of society that has negative consequences on health.
From this perspective, the underlying assumption is that health differentials across
the social spectrum are closely related to the structure of a society, which in turn
is